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2021-01-15

Learning to Drive Syllabus, Parking Lot

I will be teaching my adult children how to drive and found it helpful to cobble together a syllabus of activities. This will be in multiple phases, starting with … a parking lot. Parking Lot: Goals: Use and feel of steering inputs, mirrors and other controls. Car gauges and lights. Learn how the car handles at different slow speeds. Parking....

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2020-11-09

CWA Beginner – Session 16

For our last, unstructured session, we’ll do some more sending and copying using these lists of fruits and vegetables, and animals.  As with the exercise we did with the state abbreviations, send a word to the next person, they’ll send the word back, “R” if correct.  (If they don’t copy, “?” to resend)  They’ll send a word to the next...

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2020-11-06

CWA Beginner – Session 15

This is the ad hoc, unscripted part of the course. Welcome, Session 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Bonus homework:If you can, listen to the K1USN SST on Sunday either on air or via Web SDR, see what you can pick off. If you want to try to make an on-air...

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2020-11-03

CWA Beginner – Session 14

For the bonus homework: Compose an amateur radio-related haiku, a three-line poem where the lines are 5, 7, and 5 syllables, respectively.  Some examples from a prior class are below.  As you practice at home, think of where it would be appropriate to add additional spacing to compensate for the lack of context clues: No propagationUntil someone calls CQThen the...

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2020-10-31

Black Garlic

We received a head of black garlic in our CSA market basket and made the Black Garlic pasta recipe from Cooking on the Weekends. The flavor We enjoyed the black garlic enough, we looked at what was involved in making our own. I used Joshua Weissman’s method with the folding proofer to run 10 heads of garlic (most of a...

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2020-10-29

CWA Beginner – Session 13

For the bonus homework:The session includes abbreviations and pro signs.  I’ve attached two PDF files.  qcodes.pdf has a nice half-page of common abbreviations and some Q codes used in nets, fsd218.pdf, from ARRL has pro signs on the fourth page.   Welcome, Session 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Unfortunately, I didn’t write...

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2020-10-26

CWA Beginner – Session 12

1) Prepare to send QSO information about the weather, rig (if you don’t have one, what you would buy with unfettered use of the CW Academy AmEx card), and the year you became a ham.   Examples: WX IS HVY RAIN AND WIND TEMP IS 50RIG IS KX3HAM SINCE 2015 “ES” is often used as an abbreviation for “AND” (and as...

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2020-10-22

CWA Beginner – Session 11

In the official CWOPS Beginner Book, session 11 is divided into copying segments:  [Your callsign] de k6rbur rst 579 nr sf name rob hw? [Your callsign] de k6rb k [Your callsign] de n3jt ur rst is 5nn <bt>qth mclean va ? Mclean va <bt>op is jim de n3jt [Your callsign] de w1rm <bt>ur rst 569 569 in ct name is pete...

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2020-10-19

CWA Beginner – Session 10

Session 10 covers Q, X, Z and <BK>. The audio file (thank you again, Mateo) is here – 25cpm rate, 7wpm Farnsworth spacing. Welcome, Session 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 In the official CWOPS Beginner Book, session 10 is divided into copying segments:  K, J, 8, 0, X, Q, Z,...

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2020-10-15

CWA Beginner – Session 9

Session 9 covers 0, 8, J and K, and introduces the first pro-sign, <BT>. The audio file (thank you again, Mateo) is here – 25cpm rate, 7wpm Farnsworth spacing. Welcome, Session 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 <BT> is the notation for a pro code. It can also be written...

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